In my younger days I used to chew on a raw green bean or two. They're also fun to play with. Racing across the kitchen linoleum, batting the bean, kind of like a hockey player stickhanding the puck, only I bet I'm faster! "She's got it at the far end of the floor. She carries it past the chair, bean-handles around the sleeping dog, pokechecking the bean from under his tail. Still bean handling she ricochets it off a human foot. Now it's a breakaway, racing toward the goal (the small gap under the china cabinet). She shoots . . . . she SCORES ! ! !" I shoot the green bean under the cabinet. What talent! Did you know I can bat a green bean under the cabinet from across the room? 'Course, that was when we had our other dogs; now that we have the pup she always wants to join in and I don't play with DOGS!

I LOVE EDAMAME. seriously. once i even tried to get INTO the pot on the stove WHILE it was cooking. now my mom has to guard the stove when she makes it b/c i am so ludicrous. one thing that is really fun is when she squeezes a bean out of the shell really fast and it goes shooting down the hall and i chase it down and gobble it up. weird though, lola does not care AT all about edamame. she is a little silly though.